9:59 AM,
Apr. 1, 2013

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and lawmakers like the mix of copays, managed and preventive health-care options and spending controls within the Healthy Indiana Plan, which was passed in 2007 with bipartisan support.

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Gov. Mike Pence and state lawmakers are moving forward with an unconventional - and controversial - plan to expand Medicaid, which would offer health insurance to about 400,000 more Hoosiers.

The unconventional part: They want to do it through the state's Healthy Indiana Plan.

The controversial part: If Washington doesn't agree to allow the state to alter Medicaid to fit the Healthy Indiana Plan - which could happen - Medicaid would not be expanded and the state would forgo $10.5 billion in federal aid through 2020, and more beyond. ...